• B312@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    3 days ago

    This could legit be helpful for me. There are so many times when I think I flushed the toilet but it turns out I didn’t

  • Draghetta@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    3 days ago

    Funny how this is supposed to be absurd - upside down duck, cake, “bizarro” and all - but it’s actually pretty accurate. So many products out there that require you to download their shitty spyware in order to do the things they are supposed to do.

      • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Find me a new car in 2024 that doesnt store every GPS coordinate you’ve driven at for eternity. Genuinely, I’d like to see the non-garbage option because my '04 is getting old.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          If I buy a new car, I’m going to have to figure out how to lobotomise it. At the very least, you should be able to mess up or cage any transmitters.

          I have no idea if that’s possible without taking the whole thing apart, though.

          • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            As far as I am aware, most of them aren’t directly transmitting data back to the manufacturer, but the data is stored on the car so if you ever have it worked on the dealership can just pull that shit without consent. I could be wrong though, maybe there are cars now that are doing that. I do know that a a lot of cars are taking the iPhone route of having “encrypted” parts, where if one is missing or replaced, the car just won’t work.

      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        13·
        3 days ago

        Yep. Until you can’t find non-garbage products anymore because 95% of everyone else is dumb enough to fall for it.

        I think there’s a reasonable case to be made against buyer beware here, we need to ban this shit.

        • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          I was just making this point with a laissez faire capitalism coworker. Bro just cannot understand the invisible hand is very often wrong.

          • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            That’s funny to hear. I’d actually say this kind of thing that happens with electronics is unusual, and people do know what’s in their own best interest the vast majority of the time. Dunno if that puts me in the picture or not.

            • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              and people do know what’s in their own best interest the vast majority of the time.

              Is that true if the vast majority of people are either uninformed or apathetic?

              • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                Magical boxes aside, people understand and pay attention to things that are of direct personal interest to them. Transit schedules, typical prices of things in their area and so on. Which garbage bins to check if you’re really poor, how to avoid taxes if you’re really rich.

                So, I guess it wouldn’t be, but people actually aren’t stupid or apathetic (about their own life) in general.

        • pimento64@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          4·
          3 days ago

          For example, try buying a television in a retail store that doesn’t have “smart” features at all, just inputs, outputs, and a digital tuner.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      For the basic plan, based on usage though it looks like you’d save more with our premium tier that allows unlimited flushes per day and includes our smellfesh scent subscription.

  • Randelung@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    3 days ago

    Free trial exhausted. Subscribe now to keep using server infrastructure. After all, all you bought was the toilet, you can’t expect the server space for free.

  • OrganicMustard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 days ago

    It tracks the quality of your shits, draws a graph of the daily amount that you can share on social media and recommends a list of sponsored foods depending on your needs.

    • Free_Opinions@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      I know you’re joking but a toilet that analyzes your stool would be quite remarkable health monitoring device to go along with our smartwatches and stuff. I bet there’s loads of health markers you could see from it.

  • A1kmm@lemmy.amxl.comEnglish
    24·
    3 days ago

    But don’t you see the benefit - the data on your flushes helps our Trusted† FlushMe Partners ® provide more relevant service to you, and also helps us partially offset the cost of our running our flush servers, allowing us to provide service to you for only $29.99 monthly††!

    †: All FlushMe partners have undergone creditworthiness checks. ††: Limited time one month introductory offer. FlushMe may, but is not required to, provide you with a personalised monthly price for renewal of the service.

    • bstix@feddit.dkEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      Don’t worry. I’m on a streak. If I keep it going for 30 days I will unlock the flushing feature without having to pay for premium.

  • Kuma@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    3 days ago

    I laughed a lot when I saw this and I sent it to my parent who laughed too. This is my parents house right now. They want buttons for their lamps but they were forced to get an app for most of them and had to fight the company to put in buttons. They also got a ventilation system without buttons and they could not get buttons except if they payed for a very expensive hub, so they went for the app. But only one person can be connected at a time and you have to unpair before someone else can pair, so the app act as if it is the hub… it is very strange

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      My parents had a house built a couple of years ago and it’s the same with them. It’s real hard for me to say “I told you so” like every time I go over there and see them fighting with some app bullshit on one of their appliances. It pisses me off so much because there was nothing wrong with their old house and now I’m going to be stuck inheriting the new one that’s worse in every way. Probably right around the time all the cut corners in the construction start coming out as the place falls apart.

      • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I’d love to inherit a house even if it had no appliances and was falling apart…

        • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Yeah I know I’m fortunate and this is pretty much the only route to home ownership for me it’s just frustrating to think about what could have been and what’s waiting in the future.

          • DrDystopia@lemy.lolEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            it’s just frustrating to think about what could have been and what’s waiting in the future.

            Modern existence in a nutshell.

    • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      2 days ago

      As long as they can convince their shareholders this will eventually make money and you buy into their eventual $30/flush subscription they won’t have to go out of business